Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...braille books are in Japanese, he relies on tape recordings. If a tape is unavailable, Bordley has someone read to him but he prefers the tapes: "You can skim a tape somewhat, but it's hard to tell a reader to skim." He feels Harvard has inadequate facilities for blind students. "It's an area they should work on. I came here with the idea that Harvard being what it is, they'd have access to tremendous facilities." He complains of the dearth of readers in Spanish, his field of concentration...
Bordley and other visually-impaired students find their readers through the Bureau of Study Counsel's "Readers for the Blind" program. Margaret Drickamer '77, who has the "semi-paying position" of running the program, says another problem is not knowing how well the volunteers can read...
...coordinator would also ensure that the disabled fully utilize what Harvard does have to offer them. When Drickamer looked into Harvard's resources for the blind, she learned that 6000 books are on tape in Lamont Library. "They're there for a different reason but they're an absolute gold mine--and no one had coordinated them." The Law School also has tapes available. Drickamer emphasizes, "There are resources to be tapped here. It's a matter of getting the resources together with the needs of the students; you need a middle person...
...presence of a coordinator might increase the small number of disabled students at the College. Not including the partially blind, there are five disabled undergraduates. "It's a lot more effective and encouraging for a prospective student if all the effort is not up to the individual," Drickamer adds. Thomas says that, to the disabled, Harvard "seems pretty impossible from the outside, but that's because no one's ever publicized that handicapped students should come here... and I think it might be a good idea to let people know about...
...CHARACTERIZATIONS of the Indians, although minor parts, are crucial to the play's spirit of mockery. David Kleeman as Chief Brown Bear is so overly dignified and wooden that he deserves a chair in the Classics Department. Fleet Foot, portrayed by Alan Middleton, is the typical half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...